Genesis 33:17
And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth. And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
After the meeting Esau returned to Seir and went his own way while Jacob journeyed instead to Succoth, marking their separation after the meeting. At Succoth Jacob built a house for himself and made booths for his cattle, and that building is why the place is called Succoth. Succoth was only a temporary stopping place in Jacob's return to Palestine before he moved on toward Shechem in Canaan. He came in peace to the city of Shechem after his blessing at Peniel, and the verse belongs to that return and to the crisis in which Jacob becomes Israel.
The verse belongs to Jacob going forward to meet his brother Esau in perplexity and agony. God gave him a vision that His angelic host was with him, while Jacob did all he could on his part to compensate his offended brother with property, humbled his heart before God, and pleaded only God's mercy. In that crisis he wrestled in faith at the Brook Jabbok at Peniel with the Angel of Jehovah, received a blessing with a changed heart and a changed name, and was changed from Jacob the supplanter to Israel the prevailer with God. That change is the origin of Israel, and true Israel are the prevailers by faith. The meeting shows God's intervention and power to change men's hearts by changing Esau's purpose, so that Jacob's deliverance from Esau was miraculous and came without the use of the sword.
Esau had once looked forward to Isaac's death as the time to be revenged on Jacob for stealing his father's blessing, but his feelings had greatly changed, and the brothers met and united their grief at their father's death-bed. Jacob was now wealthy and returned to Esau the blessing of possession so recklessly sold for a mess of pottage, and the brothers were no longer separated by enmity, jealousy, and hatred but parted because of their possessions and because Jacob knew their religious faith was so unlike that it would be better to live apart. The verse belongs to the reconciliation that followed Jacob's change, whose greatly modified and refined character showed his trials had not been in vain so that ever after he was reverenced, and it calls for the spirit of forgiveness in the heart. It stands at the beginning of the more peaceful time of Jacob's life, when he dedicated his household to God and they put away foreign gods and foolish trinkets before he went back to Bethel, with Rachel's death following after the reconciliation. The chapter containing the verse is grouped with others as showing the sad fruits of Jacob's having more than one wife, including partiality, jealousy, envy, low moral standards, and crime.